Italian

Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta)

Name: Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 12 oz pasta; 1.5 cups tomato passata; 2 cans canned tuna, drained; 2 garlic cloves; 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 2 tbsp chopped parsley; 1/2 tsp salt

Pietro @pietro_bari

Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

12 oz pasta
1.5 cups tomato passata
2 cans canned tuna, drained
2 garlic cloves
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp chopped parsley
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta until al dente.
Meanwhile, warm the olive oil in a skillet and cook the garlic until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add the tomato passata and salt, and simmer gently for 8 minutes.
Flake in the tuna and warm through for 2 minutes, breaking it up lightly.
Drain the pasta, reserving a little pasta water, and toss it through the sauce, loosening with pasta water as needed.
Scatter with parsley and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta) carries gluten and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	Affettati e Formaggio (Cold Cuts and Cheese Plate)
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 480 kcal
Protein: 24 g
Carbs: 68 g
Fat: 12 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 490 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pasta al Tonno (Tuna Pasta) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.